Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas
Some recent academic and popular literature implies that the problem of the colonization of the Americas has been largely resolved in favor of one specific model: a Pacific coastal migration, dependent on high marine productivity, from the Bering Strait to South America, thousands of years before Cl...
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ftcdlib:oai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt4dc782v7 2023-11-05T03:40:54+01:00 Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas Potter, Ben A Baichtal, James F Beaudoin, Alwynne B Fehren-Schmitz, Lars Haynes, C Vance Holliday, Vance T Holmes, Charles E Ives, John W Kelly, Robert L Llamas, Bastien Malhi, Ripan S Miller, D Shane Reich, David Reuther, Joshua D Schiffels, Stephan Surovell, Todd A eaat5473 2018-08-03 application/pdf https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4dc782v7 unknown eScholarship, University of California qt4dc782v7 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4dc782v7 public Science Advances, vol 4, iss 8 Earth Sciences Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience Biological Sciences Americas Biological Evolution Emigration and Immigration History Ancient Humans Models Theoretical Population Dynamics article 2018 ftcdlib 2023-10-09T18:07:58Z Some recent academic and popular literature implies that the problem of the colonization of the Americas has been largely resolved in favor of one specific model: a Pacific coastal migration, dependent on high marine productivity, from the Bering Strait to South America, thousands of years before Clovis, the earliest widespread cultural manifestation south of the glacial ice. Speculations on maritime adaptations and typological links (stemmed points) across thousands of kilometers have also been advanced. A review of the current genetic, archeological, and paleoecological evidence indicates that ancestral Native American population expansion occurred after 16,000 years ago, consistent with the archeological record, particularly with the earliest securely dated sites after ~15,000 years ago. These data are largely consistent with either an inland (ice-free corridor) or Pacific coastal routes (or both), but neither can be rejected at present. Systematic archeological and paleoecological investigations, informed by geomorphology, are required to test each hypothesis. Article in Journal/Newspaper Bering Strait University of California: eScholarship |
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Earth Sciences Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience Biological Sciences Americas Biological Evolution Emigration and Immigration History Ancient Humans Models Theoretical Population Dynamics Potter, Ben A Baichtal, James F Beaudoin, Alwynne B Fehren-Schmitz, Lars Haynes, C Vance Holliday, Vance T Holmes, Charles E Ives, John W Kelly, Robert L Llamas, Bastien Malhi, Ripan S Miller, D Shane Reich, David Reuther, Joshua D Schiffels, Stephan Surovell, Todd A Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas |
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Some recent academic and popular literature implies that the problem of the colonization of the Americas has been largely resolved in favor of one specific model: a Pacific coastal migration, dependent on high marine productivity, from the Bering Strait to South America, thousands of years before Clovis, the earliest widespread cultural manifestation south of the glacial ice. Speculations on maritime adaptations and typological links (stemmed points) across thousands of kilometers have also been advanced. A review of the current genetic, archeological, and paleoecological evidence indicates that ancestral Native American population expansion occurred after 16,000 years ago, consistent with the archeological record, particularly with the earliest securely dated sites after ~15,000 years ago. These data are largely consistent with either an inland (ice-free corridor) or Pacific coastal routes (or both), but neither can be rejected at present. Systematic archeological and paleoecological investigations, informed by geomorphology, are required to test each hypothesis. |
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Potter, Ben A Baichtal, James F Beaudoin, Alwynne B Fehren-Schmitz, Lars Haynes, C Vance Holliday, Vance T Holmes, Charles E Ives, John W Kelly, Robert L Llamas, Bastien Malhi, Ripan S Miller, D Shane Reich, David Reuther, Joshua D Schiffels, Stephan Surovell, Todd A |
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Potter, Ben A Baichtal, James F Beaudoin, Alwynne B Fehren-Schmitz, Lars Haynes, C Vance Holliday, Vance T Holmes, Charles E Ives, John W Kelly, Robert L Llamas, Bastien Malhi, Ripan S Miller, D Shane Reich, David Reuther, Joshua D Schiffels, Stephan Surovell, Todd A |
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Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas |
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Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas |
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Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas |
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Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas |
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Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas |
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current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the americas |
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